Nuremberg Laws

The Nuremberg Laws were a series of anti-Jewish laws passed in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935, forbidding marriages between Jews and Germans and the ability for German women under the age of 45 to work in Jewish households out of fear of extramarital affairs. On 26 November 1935, the laws were expanded to include Romani people and Africans, but the two laws did not commence until after the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin out of foreign policy concerns. Many Jewish stores were forced to close due to German avoidance of Jews and their businesses, and signs identifying stores as Jewish were hung on doors and painted on windows. This was one of the many anti-Semitic legislations passed by the Nazi Party, preceding Kristallnacht and the Holocaust.